Coal

The report identifies $37.9 billion in current available funding across a wide variety of departments.

Is this the bill that will help save Colstrip, the coal mine, and the coal-fired power plant in Southeast Montana? Or, will Colstrip shut down anyway, and will ratepayers be left holding the bag?

The coal industry was already hurting before the coronavirus, and the pandemic has made things much worse.

"Saturday, January 4th, 2019 will go down as a dark day in Montana history. On this day, Colstrip Units 1 and 2 will be closed - with the doors dismantled and welded shut."

Well, first off- if coal is dead then why are the radical environmentalists still trying so hard to kill it with lawsuits, regulatory actions, and efforts to block coal export terminals? I mean- if coal is dead, then why are the enviro activists working so hard to beat a dead horse? Maybe it's because coal isn't dead.

Washington state regulators have estimated $20 million in needed repairs for a power plant in Montana raising concerns about the life of the generator.

Politico's Alex Thompson: "Bullock now against coal. Schumer's hopes of a Sen. run fade."

Congressman Greg Gianforte (R-MT) politely, but directly, laid into Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D-WA) during a congressional hearing earlier this week. Meanwhile, the Seattle press mock Inslee (a 2020 Dem presidential contender) for his response.

Are the big business folks running Patagonia nothing more than hypocrites on the environment? That's what Utah Congressman Rob Bishop (R-UT) had to say on Capitol Hill, making the point that Patagonia is having their products made overseas, by companies that are powered by coal.

"So it was okay for Democrats and the liberal media to tell unemployed coal miners to learn to code, but it’s not okay to tell unemployed journalists the same." That was the reaction of Daily Caller video columnist Stephanie Hamill to the news that Twitter was censoring users who used the hashtag #LearnToCode when responding to journalists who were laid off.